Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Choice vs. Fate?

What roles do choice and fate play in Romeo and Juliet?

19 comments:

Cjohnson2 said...

I believe Romeo and Juliet creat their own fate by the decisions they make. When Romeo kills Tybalt his fate is that if he gets caught he will be killed.

Unknown said...

I think that choice as well as fate play a big part in Romeo and Juliet. Part of me thinks that the two of them falling in love was fate, and i also think that by falling in love their fate becomes ultimatley that they die. Also lots of choices that they make determine their fate like Connor said. Like Romeo killing Tybalt and Romeo and Juliet choosing to get married.

Unknown said...

Romeo and Juliet choose their fate. They had a choice to be married, Romeo had a choice to kill Tybalt, and the father had the choice to marry R and J. So fate really dosnt play apart in this play, excpt for the fate that Romeo and Juliet met. But again, it was Romeos choice to go to the party.

SamP said...

I think that fate overrules choice in Romeo and Juliet. The only fate that really happened was the two of them falling in love. What led to that was Romeo choice to go to the party. Then after that they both choice to secretly get married. There was definitely more choices because the only fate was that they both fell in love, you can't chose to fall in love.

Anonymous said...

Choice and fate are the guidelines for character direction in Romeo & Juliet. Fate could be many things, but as the story progresses we see how fate has played Romeo & Juliet into each other’s arms. The choices they make from there are what define their future and the continuing action and plat of the story. Every involved character in R&J are directly changed or affected somehow by Romeo & Juliet's choices and how fate brought true love together.

adam said...

I believe that Choice and fate have a very strong connection as well. If Romeo and Juliet had not chose to be married, than many scenes would have been very different. For instance, Romeo would still be chasing Rosaline, he would have fought Tybalt to begin with and Mercutio wouldnt have died

tims said...

Like Connor and Kasey both said, I believe that Romeo and Juliet's choices determine their fate. If Romeo hadn't decided to go to the ball in order to get his mind off of Rosaline, then he wouldn't have even met Juliet. In another example if the couple had just decided to tell their families that they wanted to be married, then they wouldn't have had to mess with keeping their marriage a secret which leads to the problems that eventually leads to each of their deaths.

emilys said...

In Romeo and Juliet, I think fate and choice both played a role. I think fate played a role in Romeo and Juliet meeting and falling in love. However, Romeo and Juliet ultimately have the choice to create their own fate. They can choose how to act, what to do, and when to do it. They can also choose to let fate take over and let what happens happen.

sammisizz said...

Choice and fate both are seen in Romeo and Juliet. But i think fate only occurs when they meet, everything else is their choice. They choose to fall in love, get married, kill tybalt, and then they choose to kill themselves. Both could have found an easier way to stay together without faking a death and then comitting suicide... right? thier fate was decided by their own decisions.

breey said...
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breey said...

Choice and fate are both played in Romeo and Juliet. I think that when they met and fell in love was fate. When they chose to get married it was by choice because it could not have been fate. The end of the story was fate as well. The ideas of choice and fate are very important in Romeo and Juliet.

Bree Y.

KenneyLynn Mauve said...

I believe that because of Juliet's and Romeo's choices, they choose their fate. Romeo and Juliet look for love and find love. Their choice of looking for love, created their fate of finding each other. Juliet refused to marry Paris in her own way, and married Romeo before her parents found out. Fate and choices are very big parts in Romeo and Juliet.

Samantha H. said...

Choice is very easy to identify in Romeo and Juliet. They choose to go against their parents, they choose to secretly marry, Juliet chooses to not marry Count, but maybe it was not choice. Maybe it was fate that all of that happened. Was it fate that Romeo and Juliet met? Was it Tybalt's fate to be killed by Romeo, and Romeo's to be banished from Verona? Was it Juliet's fate to marry Count Paris(even though she did not)? By definition fate means something that is inevitable(paraphrased from dictionary.com). But if it's inevitable does that mean people should have known that Romeo and Juliet would fall in love, should that have been their fate, or does that mean that the inevtable does not always happen. Can fate be changed? I believe this: the role played by fate in this play was that Romeo should have never met Juliet, and against her will Juliet should have married Count Paris, but by some unexplained miracle, the tables turned and their fates were changed.

Tessabyrns said...

romeo's choice to kill tybalt as revenge for tybalt's choice to kill mercutio, changed his fate from him and juliet being happy and married, to romeo being banished to mantua and juliet having to marry paris.

Katie M said...

I think that fate is a choice. The choices Romeo and Juliet make decide their fate. Also there personalities help decided there fate.

mWinfrey said...

i think that both play big roles but choice always leads to the final solution. Matt W.

MaggieL said...

I think that Roemo and Juliet chose to get married because they have alternative reasons such as trying to forget about Rosaline and trying to lose Paris. Weather they really love each other is still not known, but it appears so. Fate plays a huge role because Romeo and Juliet go behind their parents back and get married so it is fate that the parents of Juliet expect her to marry Paris. It is also fate that they meet at the masque and fall in love and Romeo finds Juliet asleep and thinks she is dead and ends up killing himself.

cperez said...

Well I think that all of the actions of Romeo and Juilet were choices except for when they fell in love with each other. A person can not help who they fall inlove with so their for, I belive that it was fate. I also think that it was fate when Romeo and Juliet were at the same party. Their familes are worst enemys but yet they still manage to end up at the same party! That is fate.

Kate said...

Despite the other comments, I believe it was fate that caused Romeo and Juliet's death. Though I don't believe fate exists in our world, Shakespeare clearly wanted his audience to believe fate existed in the fictional world of Verona, or he wouldn't have constantly mention that the lovers were 'star crossed' or their fate was 'hanging in the stars'. If you believe this, then they make the decisions they make because of their unavoidable fate.